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Chief, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
As the Medical Director for the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center at James A Haley Veterans' Hospital (JAHVH), I have accumulated decades of clinical and research experience in the rehabilitation of patients with brain injury. I have been involved in rehabilitation medicine and research for over thirty-five years, beginning with sports injuries at the Mayo Clinic and currently with active duty and Veteran populations. In the VA, I have been Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine since 1996 and was the Chief of Spinal Cord Injury from 1996 to 2003. We have the largest inpatient Rehabilitation Service during this time and by far the largest number of CARF Rehabilitation Programs in the VA (12). I have a track record in funding from HSR&D, Defense and Veteran Brain Injury Center, Department of Defense, and other funding sources. I established the first VA Blast Injury Clinic in 2003 that led to establishment of the VA Polytrauma System of Care. In 2005, I became the Clinical Director of the Polytrauma Blast/TBI QUERI. In 2006, I was also the Clinical Co-Director of a HSR&D and RR&D Centers of Excellence in Rehabilitation. Since 1996, I also have been the lead Principle Investigator for the Defense and Brain Injury Program. We provide inpatient TBI services for Severe TBI with our Emerging Consciousness Program. To address the needs of Veterans with mild TBI, we developed the interdisciplinary Post-Deployment Rehabilitation and Evaluation Program (PREP) to address complex morbidities such as pain, headache, PTSD, insomnia, sleep apnea, medication management, and other physical, cognitive and sensory impairments.
